It looks like Sussex County might have gotten its winter snow in one storm.

Sussex saw severe weather from the snowstorm that hit the area on Jan. 7. In Georgetown, the temperature only reached 24 degrees on Jan. 8 and the low was 13 degrees with an average temperature of 19 degrees.

At 7:20 a.m. on Jan. 9, the temperature hit 2 degrees at the Delaware Coastal Airport in Georgetown, tying a record previously set in 1970.

Also according to the National Weather Service, Ocean View received 13.5 inches of snow as of 6:25 p.m. on Jan. 7, the most of anywhere on Delmarva. Selbyville came in second with 13 inches.

Chris Slye, a Dagsboro resident who works in Ocean View, said the store he works for had to close on Saturday because of the road conditions, but as soon as the main roads were cleared, he was back in the store.

Slye said, though, that not all the roads are cleared.

"I know in northern Delaware, they're used to this type of snow," he said. "But we're not really used to it here. The roads are a mess."

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Walker Weis, 13, Jonathan Mitchell, 12, and Ryan Kilroy, 13, run around their neighborhood, playing in the snow near Route 54 in Selbyville on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017.(Photo: Staff photo by Ryan Marshall)

Logan Boughes, of Ocean View, said the cleaning company she works for, Heather's Home Works, had to cancel appointments Monday because a lot of the back roads some of the clients lived on were still impassable.

"We're not used to this type of snow," she said. "Because of it, we had to rearrange our whole schedule."

Lance Franck, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Mount Holly, New Jersey, said they do not measure record snowfall for Ocean View, but the average snowfall for Ocean View from 1981 to 2010 was a foot annually.

To put it into perspective, Franck said Kent County usually gets 14 to 16 inches and New Castle County usually gets 16 to 20 inches.

However, Franck explained the snow total is not official because it is not measured by the weather service itself.

Whatever the exact totals, both Slye and Boughes were caught off guard by the amount.

Slye said since the forecasters were predicting 2 to 4 inches of snow at first, it was hard to track the storm and to become properly equipped.

As the week progressed, the forecast for Jan. 7 started to show more snow, with initial predictions of 4 inches which eventually climbed higher.

Slye said the confusion over the storm possibly led to people being unprepared.

Boughes, too, noted the confusion with the forecasting. But in terms of records, she wasn't surprised, comparing the recent snowfall and extreme cold temperatures to the other extreme when the area gets over 100 degrees in the summer.